Tom Bissell Quotes

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

The less you know, the more you believe.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Ignorance breeds fear.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

People have opinions but no knowledge.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.